Hacked

Gavin Trott · Post by **Gavin Trott** » Sat Oct 25, 2003 7:54 am

Hello

The site where the forum was located was hacked yesterday unfortunately.

Some people just have too much time on their hands.

The forum has been restored to an overnight backup, hence the losty posts for that morning.

back to normal now.

BTW had the quiz been solved before the hack?

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Sat Oct 25, 2003 8:19 am

Annoying, isn't it !

You should apply the patches so they can't do it again !

Red Bigot · Post by **Red Bigot** » Sat Oct 25, 2003 9:01 am

Dear Guest,

Perhaps you mean 'they' as in the ISP hosting the site?

BTW it's most likely not lack of applying patches (not a MS Windows server) but just poor server security setup that allows the hackers to do their mindless stuff.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Sat Oct 25, 2003 9:54 am

Red Bigot wrote:Dear Guest,

Perhaps you mean 'they' as in the ISP hosting the site?

BTW it's most likely not lack of applying patches (not a MS Windows server) but just poor server security setup that allows the hackers to do their mindless stuff.

http://www.phpbb.com/news.php?id=23

Red Bigot · Post by **Red Bigot** » Sat Oct 25, 2003 10:04 am

Dear anonymous,

"This can result in anything from "nuisance" posts to people exploiting cross-site issues to grab cookie data. "

So you think this little hole in phpBB brought the whole site down? or are you the dopey 'script kiddie' who exploited it?

Ian S · Post by **Ian S** » Sun Oct 26, 2003 3:53 am

Gavin
Auto log in was disabled today - a consequence of the hack?
Ian

TORB · Post by **TORB** » Sun Oct 26, 2003 7:20 am

Ian S wrote:Gavin
Auto log in was disabled today - a consequence of the hack?
Ian

Ian,

Must be an Pom thing :shock:

It auto logs in for me. :lol: